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Graduation rates, bike thefts, vacant land take top three spots in Open Data Race

October 28, 2011

Residents have spoken. The data they’re most interested in getting their hands on are the gradaution rates and achievements of Philadelphia’s public school students.

The Philadelphia Public School Notebook won the OpenDataPhilly contest, which asked people to weigh on what city data they want developed, and will now pursue from the school district information on high school graduation rates, where and when students to college and how well they do there.

“The Open Data Race was a fun competition, an exciting race, and we give the organizers at OpenDataPhilly a lot of credit for bringing attention to the need to uncover important data sets so that the public can have access,” Notebook Editor/Director Paul Socolar said. “The Notebook has started discussions with the District’s accountability office about how to get access to the information, and they are very receptive.”